It is still pretty popular.....

Rap and disco are amazing.

The problem with rap today is that it was slowly eaten by dance music, in the same way that rock and punk were eaten by pop music. Slowly all music genres become dance music, because if you can't dance to it, you can't get a music video full of scantily clad women, and if you can't get a video, you can't get a record deal.

But there is still good rap music and there's even still good disco music. You just won't find it on the TV.

mrstickball said: It's dwindling in popularity? There is a God! See, atheists? That's all the proof you needed Rap is one of the worst genres to ever become mainstream. Even disco spits on it's grave.

The day that rap finally disappears from the face of the earth and it's never "sung" (I don't consider it music, only the biggest aberration in existence) again by anyone ever, I MAYBE will believe that there's a god. Until then, sorry

because it sucks ass. Its not dead yet, untalented people like Kanye West, Flo Rida, T.I., etc keep it alive.

People who dismiss rap as a genre simply because they have decided it's all worthless just haven't listened to good rap yet, IMO.

On topic: I don't think it's dwindling, it's just, like Rubang pointed out, becoming more hybridized by pop and dance. 'Tis inevitable.

Ok, link me one rap song, whichever you want, and I'll see if I can stand it for more than 15 seconds. So far, no rap song has ever managed to do that

Eminem's new single, maybe rap will come back

The problem I have with Rap is that for a lot of people, that's the only music they listen to. And...they expect me to like it with them. Fuck 'em. I like Rock, I like Funk, and I'll listen to a wide variety of music. There's even some Rap I like. But I don't want to listen to endless waves of rap. Listen to some R&B for god's sake!

Didn't rap transform into R&B?

If it didn't- soulja boy killed it.

Oh my god no, unless there's some terrible new bastardized R&B. This is what I'm talking about.